Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 (@desmondtanko) 's Twitter Profile
Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭

@desmondtanko

Researcher | writer| optimist | co-host @unfiltered_gh | @AspenNewVoices fellow| @osglobalsurgery | former @harvardpgssc | views mine alone

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Global Health Unfiltered (@unfiltered_gh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On #WorldTBDay2024, we are highlighting the voices of patient advocates fighting to End TB! 1. Nandita V shares her story of losing her hearing to TB and then taking on big Pharma to ensure access to safe and affordable TB medicines. @paimadhu Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá Émilie KB 🇨🇲🇫🇷

Global Health Unfiltered (@unfiltered_gh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The problem of condescension in global health Listen to the full episode where we discuss the impact of religion on health in Africa with Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo, Yaw Bediako and Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 Available on all podcast platforms and on globalhealthunfiltered.com Subscribe and share. 🙏🙏

Professor Dhananjaya Sharma (@dhananjayasha19) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why not write for our own journals? Why this need for validation? The Foreign gaze (⁦Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá⁩) revisited 🥹😢 Shapeshifters: Global South scholars and their tensions in border-crossing to Global North journals | BMJ Global Health gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0…

Global Health Unfiltered (@unfiltered_gh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👏 👏 Congratulations to our co-founder Emmanuella Faith Amoako on being awarded an International Development and Education Award for her contribution to cancer research. Well done, Ella! We are proud of you and all you do to ensure access to cancer care for vulnerable children in Africa.

👏 👏 Congratulations to our co-founder <a href="/Drellaamoako/">Emmanuella Faith Amoako</a>  on being awarded an International Development and Education Award for her contribution to cancer research. Well done, Ella! We are proud of you and all you do to ensure access to cancer care for vulnerable children in Africa.
Nkafu Policy Institute (@nkafupolicyinst) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us on July 12 at 3pm(GMT+1) to engage with experts from #Kenya, #Ethiopia, #Rwanda, #Ecuador, #Cameroon & #Columbia as they share their advocacy methods & ongoing projects aimed at enhancing access to safe, timely & affordable #surgicalcare. Register:foretiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join us on July 12 at 3pm(GMT+1) to engage with experts from #Kenya, #Ethiopia, #Rwanda, #Ecuador, #Cameroon &amp; #Columbia as they share their advocacy methods &amp; ongoing projects aimed at enhancing access to safe, timely &amp; affordable #surgicalcare.

Register:foretiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Global Health Unfiltered (@unfiltered_gh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How do we hold African governments and politicians accountable for health? This is one of the million-dollar questions we tackled in our latest episode with @Boghuma, Yaw Bediako and Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 Listen now on your favorite podcast app or globalhealthunfiltered.com

Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá (@seyeabimbola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm happy to announce that my book titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: editions.ird.fr/produit/728/97… The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5t6…

I'm happy to announce that my book titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: editions.ird.fr/produit/728/97…

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5t6…
viveknd (@viveknenmini) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New blog post up on the need to regulate philanthrocapitalist actors in #globalhealth on Global Health Unfiltered Thank you Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 for the opportunity to publish. globalhealthunfiltered.com/blog/8kps13nmc…

Beverly Ndifoin (@ndifoinbeverly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What is Impact? Since 2019, I have been working with a dynamic team to identify, capture and amplify the voices of everyday unsung community heroes daring to bring positive change to their communities. Subscribe to see this season’s Impact Voices: youtu.be/jxKN88Vfoy4?si…

Jumbam Family Foundation (@familyjumbam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When education is used as a weapon of war, everyone loses! Check out this enlightening piece our co founder Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭 wrote about the impact of the Anglophone crisis on education in Cameroon. Have a read 👉🏼allafrica.com/stories/202503… #education is #power

When education is used as a weapon of war, everyone loses!

Check out this enlightening piece our co founder <a href="/desmondtanko/">Tanko🇨🇲🇬🇭</a> wrote about the impact of the Anglophone crisis on education in Cameroon.

Have a read 👉🏼allafrica.com/stories/202503…

#education is #power
Global Health Unfiltered (@unfiltered_gh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‼️Season 4 Premiere‼️ Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá discusses the lasting impact of 'colonial love' in global health, the importance of local knowledge systems, USAID through the foreign gaze lens and more. Listen now at globalhealthunfiltered.com or any podcast app. Thank you Seye.

Global Health Unfiltered (@unfiltered_gh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The problem with aid is not that the US gives it or that it serves the US, [the problem] is that we have understood it to be charity, which it ought not to be" - Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá Listen to our season premiere on globalhealthunfiltered.com or any podcast app. Subscribe and rate

Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo (@ckyobutungi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why are 'prophets' and faith healers so common in Africa? Check out our podcast on Global Health Unfiltered, where we discuss the effects of faith healers on health, especially in light of the revelations from TB Joshua's documentary. youtu.be/zguOweWalb0?si…

Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo (@ckyobutungi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

African governments have barely addressed how they plan to cover the huge gap in healthcare left by USAID suspension. Is it the aid dependency hangover or they simply don't care? Follow this interesting conversation on our recent episode on Global Health Unfiltered youtu.be/us86Y3HNToQ?si…